Hove local elections: voting TODAY – and here's who wants your vote...

By GeorgeHA | Monday, May 02, 2011, 20:18

Do you know the candidates in your ward in the local

Hove local election: Cambridge Road Polling Station...'been a bit slow this morning, probably it's the weather...'

Hove local election: Cambridge Road Polling Station...Green and Lib Dem reps greet a voter

elections? The polling stations are now open until 10pm tonight, for your local election votes and Yes to AV or No to AV votes*. Here's who's standing in Hove's nine wards...

* The referendum is on the voting system used for elections to the UK

Parliament and the question being put to voters on Thursday 5 May is: “At

present, the UK uses the ’first past the post’ system to elect MPs to the House

of Commons. Should the ‘alternative vote’ system be used instead?”